Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...official acceptance of the challenge sent by Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia for a chess match by cable has been received from Oxford University. The Englishmen consider six players on a side sufficient, and suggest April 20 as the date of the match. They further suggest that no player shall be eligible for more than five years from the date of his matriculation as a mean between the qualifications for English and American intercollegiate chess matches. This tournament is to be held under the patronage of the Manhattan Chess Club...
...YORK, March 27.- At a meeting of chess repsentatives from Yale, Princeton and Columbia at the Manhattan Club the following team was chosen to play against the English universities: E. E. Southard 1M of Harvard, W. M. Murdock of Yale, A. S. Meyer of Columbia, E. B. Seymour of Princeton. The match is to kake place in the rooms of the Manhattan Club on April 20. Harvard, whose representative, Southard, could not be present, telegraphed that she would concur in all arrangements...
Representatives of Harvard, Yale, Pennsylvania, Princeton and Columbia met in New York last Friday and organized an Intercollegiate Shooting Association. An association trophy is to be contested for each year and will go to the college which wins it three times. In addition minor trophies for individual scores are to be provided. Shoots are to take place twice each year, during the first week in May and the first week in November. It was decided that each man should shoot at thirty birds, five at a time, repid fire system, unknown angles, one man from each college. The rules...
...permanent officers elected are: President, H. F. Lunt, Harvard; first vice-president, T. R. Coffin, Columbia; second vice-president, H. S. Paine, Princeton; secretary, O. Paul, Pennsylvania; treasurer, C. B. Spears, Yale...
...varsity and the freshman crews of Columbia University were out on the river Tuesday for the first time this year...